Beginning with the Psalms and adding the distilled wisdom of years of study and writing, Martin Marty offers a meditation marked by insight, strength, and a sure, sober faith. Throughout A Cry of Absence, he pursues the metaphor of the "e;winter of the heart."e; Marty bases his concept of the wintry way to God on a passage from the theologian Karl Rahner, describing a "e;wintry sort of spirituality."e; It refers to movement toward faith that grapples with pain, uncertainty, evil, loss, and the mystery of death to discover "e;hope on the winter-fallow landscape."e;

Beginning with the Psalms and adding the distilled wisdom of years of study and writing, Martin Marty offers a meditation marked by insight, strength, and a sure, sober faith. Throughout A Cry of Absence, he pursues the metaphor of the "e;winter of the heart."e; Marty bases his concept of the wintry way to God on a passage from the theologian Karl Rahner, describing a "e;wintry sort of spirituality."e; It refers to movement toward faith that grapples with pain, uncertainty, evil, loss, and the mystery of death to discover "e;hope on the winter-fallow landscape."e;